From the book "Opening the Seven Seals", by Richard D. Draper, about the book of Revelation, speaking about parallels between the last downhill slide of the Nephite civilization and where we are today -
"...Ironically, there was a proliferation of churches at this same time. However, the record shows that these were not built up to serve God but to justify getting gain. As the people denied goodness, they feverishly sought security in pseudorighteousness. Thus, they promoted wickedness and drank deep of the pernicious poision of the beast and his false-prophet who were yet on the earth. These churches began not only to deny the true church of the Lamb, but also to fight against it. Persecution of the righteous escalated........the Nephites 'did not dwindle in unbelief, but they did wilfully rebel against the gospel of Christ; and they did teach their children that they should not believe' (4 Ne. 1:38). In their willful rebellion, they taught their children 'to hate the children of God' (v.39). The result was a war - a war that destroyed the nation."
Sound like the news today? The push to demonize traditional religious principles or values, and have them pushed into the closet as a "new (a)morality" in which everything goes and there is no right or wrong is not only tolerated but promoted and promulgated, taught to children in schools, as they are taught that any other (the traditional Christian) point of view is illegitimate, outmoded, "intolerant", and just plain detestable. They use the courts of the land and the media to wage their war on the gospel of Christ, which I see destroying the strength and unity of our nation before our eyes...
And it is not enough to push their agenda, but they do it under a cloak of "pseudorighteousness" - it's not just an attack on Christian values/societal mores, but they insist upon doing it from "within" - that churches must change their definitions of God's commandments to accommodate their preferences and predilections. They insist that it is they, not "Christians", who are truly "Christlike" and "tolerant".
